Canada's attorney general and minister of health have lost their appeal of a court ruling on Vancouver's controversial supervised injection site, raising proponents' hopes that similar facilities will now open in other cities.

A top United Nations official has called on the Prime Minister of Canada, as host of this June’s summit of the Group of Eight (G8) leaders, to ensure that the group delivers on its commitment to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

In the face of an ongoing global economic recession that threatens to undermine recent progress, organizers of the 5 th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2009) has vowed to continue pushing for evidence-based approaches to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, while emphasizing the continued need to strategically invest in HIV research, including operations research, to guide implementation of programmes.

The B.C. government announced Thursday a $48 million pilot project to find and treat sex trade workers and injection drug users who are undiagnosed or untreated for HIV in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Prince George, B.C.

The B.C. government announced a $48-million pilot project Thursday to find and treat sex trade workers and injection drug users who are undiagnosed or untreated for HIV in Prince George and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.